Catalogue description Department of the Environment and successors: Finance: Transport, Ports and General Division and successors: Registered Files (FTPG Series)

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Reference: AT 75
Title: Department of the Environment and successors: Finance: Transport, Ports and General Division and successors: Registered Files (FTPG Series)
Description:

This series contains registered files of the Transport, Ports and General Division and successors. The records provide information on: Channel Tunnel research expenditure; financial approval for the construction of Advanced Passenger Train prototypes; loans by harbour authorities from the European Investment Bank; VAT in relation to historic buildings; Departmental contribution towards the restoration of Westminster Abbey, the purchase of Hevingham Hall in Suffolk and the preparation of National Loans Fund Accounts.
Date: 1967-1998
Related material:

Correspondence and papers of the Ministry of Transport, Finance are in:

MT 47
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: FTPG Series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Department of the Environment, Housing, Ports and General Division, 1972-1976

Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions, Finance Programmes Division, 1997-2001

Department of the Environment, Transport, Ports and General Division, 1971-1972

Department of Transport, Central Finance Division, 1985-1997

Department of Transport, Transport Industries and Investment Division, 1976-1978

Department of Transport, Transport Industries Division, 1978-1985
Physical description: 22 file(s)
Access conditions: Open
Immediate source of acquisition:

from 2007 Department for Culture, Media and Sport

from 2003 Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions
Selection and destruction information: Records have been selected to show the work of the division and in line with PRO's Acquisition Policy criteria 2.2.1.2 (management of the economy) and 2.2.2.1 (the economic, social and demographic condition of the UK, as documented by the state's dealings with individuals, communities and organisations outside its own formal boundaries)
Accruals: Series is accruing
Administrative / biographical background:

The Transport, Ports and General Division was set up in the new Department of the Environment in 1971 as part of the Finance, Transport Industries and Central Services Directorate, one of three new Finance Directorates created at that time. By the following year the division was re-named Housing, Ports and General Division. The division was responsible for financial questions relating to research; ports and certain transport industries; housing and ancient monuments.

When the Department of the Environment was split into Environment and Transport Departments in 1976 the prefix became the responsibility of Transport Industries and Investment Division (later to become known as the Transport Industries Division).

By the mid-1980s the prefix appears to have been used by the Central Finance Division and then, when the two departments were merged again in 1997, by the Finance Programmes Division. Finance Advice and Resource Management Division currently use the series.

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